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Sorry, I’m late. Homeschooling... We watched;

I wish I had seen this yesterday. I am not exactly sure what an aircheck is but I know disc jockeys keep some as portfolios and for memories. Here's one for Alan Freed from 66 years ago and a day.

God, this is so fucking hilarious!

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. It honestly seemed like he was clapping off-tempo, and I just wanted him to shut up and let the musician play. his musical contributions seemed to be him saying variations on “Let’s rock.” I would put an exclamation point there, but his delivery doesn’t warrant that punctuation.

I’d guess a junior or senior in high school since she was getting a strapless evening gown for prom.

So, how old was Tuesday Weld supposed to be? I assumed she was supposed to be in high school but she was 12 or 13 when this was filmed and she definitely looked 12 or 13.

I was stoked to see Johnny Burnette. Another one of his train songs went on to be covered by The Yardbirds and when Jimmy Page left that group and started up Led Zeppelin, they'd also cover it in the early days before they had enough songs to do. Legend is, it's actually the song the four Zep guys played when they first got in a room to meet. Yardbirds version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y078n95ApAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y078n95ApA Zep:

We got four more to watch!

From IMDB: "This early rock and roll feature, the 3rd in a series of 5 starring Disc Jockey and Rock N Roll impresario Alan Freed".

Could Alan Freed have been a less-inspiring salesman for this? He even "sang" the lead in one song and I was cringing the entire time.

How do you think she got the name Mrs. Silky? She was all smooth up front but would go medieval on your ass if needed. She must have been the only dressmaker in town at this point. "Nice dress shop you've got here. Shame if something happened to it."

According to Wikipedia: So, it looks like Freed was trying to make him a "thing." It does look like he *just* died which is kind of sad.

That's the one thing I liked in this was the music. There was some artist I didn't recognize at all. Was Jimmy Cavallo a big name in early rock? Or was he one of those "big for the month this movie was filmed so he lucked out being in this". Was he friends with Stan Freed (or a payola person)? I had at least heard of almost all the other bands in this. It seemed strange that Jimmy Cavallo got a couple songs in this movie.

Yea that number was wild and bad. I wonder how it got stuck in there. Generally though, the music was pretty solid all the way through, I thought. Diverse stuff too, not all just early rock.

That whole number was uncomfortable as all get out.

I’m taking this 1/2 hour at a time, possibly to preserve what little sanity I have left. Observations on the first 1/2 hour: I think I have forgotten the names of the songs either (a) on purpose (b) as a side effect of the terrible lip-syncing (I swear at one point Chuck Berry’s Mouth DID NOT MOVE while he was singing. An astonishing feat)! Will what’s-her-name get the prom dress? I’m torn—don’t want spoilers but cant stand the suspense. Will she stay on-budget? I liked the reaction shots to the TV. The dad REALLY got into it, then went back to the paper. I don’t like speaking badly about children but that musical number with the girl was fucking awful. it seems EVERY musical number was performed over the director screaming, “Less movement, goddamnit! Stay locked in place!” Lingering question: So was this film’s sole existence to promote a TV show? I don’t think I’ve spent so long in a movie watching TV.

Yeah, I get her father, but what’s-her-face’s father too?!? I would take my business elsewhere.

Yeah. Both parents? That seems like some overkill.

Why is Mrs Silky such a fucking narc?

I think you could show this to your kids as homeschooling, so they learn all about finances

I'd there's one thing kids these days like, it's this rock and roll music. If there's two things kids like, it's banking!

that Aldous Harding record is really cool. i wasn't into her first one, but last year's was a knock-out. such a strange and beautiful writer.

Don't know if these are helping anyone, but here are some of my most heard this year so far + a couple of my all time faves. 20 songs, 1 hour 24 minutes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4r2bP9TF57giu6ImaNwzt1?si=dTWScdAsSLaCG3CWplc9xQ

For my Movie of the Weekend, I chose Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018). I forgot my original intention of the program, which was to pick another movie with a word from the discussion's title. For Velvet Goldmine I chose National Velvet. Yet last time I forgot and made it rhyming. Couldn't find anything like Titanic so I went the opposite direction and picked Fantastic Voyage. This week I did the same with a "foot" title instead of "head". Next time I'll try to go back to the original deal. Read below for a semi-spoiled review.